Great Western, which arrived from Liverpool early
on the morning of that day, with nearly seven hundred immigrants, of
whom a large proportion were sick. He spent several hours in examination
and the supervision of removals to the hospital, during which several
deaths occurred, and was soon after, with Mr. Lewis B. Butler, the
humane and efficient steward, who had been honorably associated with him
in both terms of his administration as Health Officer, attacked with the
fever in its most malignant form. Dr. Doane died on the 27th of January,
and Mr. Butler on the 6th of February. These deaths were public as well
as private calamities. Dr. Doane must be ranked among the most generous,
wise, and active citizens--the most warm-hearted and respectable men--as
well as among the most eminent physicians, of our time, in New-York. On
the 15th of February, an eloquent discourse upon his life and character
was delivered by his friend, the Rev. E. H. Chapin, in his church in
Murray-street, of which Dr. Doane was a member.

Since the above notice of Dr. Doane was written, we have received from
one of the most eminent physicians of the United States the following
estimate of his character and abilities:

"The character of Dr. Doane commends itself to our
consideration for many striking traits. His whole life, from
his boyhood, was marked by a devotion to the acquisition of
knowledge. His attainments enabled him to enter Harvard
University at an early age, and he was recognized in that
admirable school as a young man of splendid abilities and
thorough scholarship. His medical theses there were exhibitions
of knowledge such as is but rarely possessed by the students,
whose aim is chiefly for the doctorate. He received the
highest medical honors of his Alma Mater, with the warmest
approbation of the professors. By that rigid economy of time
which through life distinguished him in all his pursuits, he
found leisure, amidst multiplied cares and responsibilities, to
become an excellent satirist and Grecian, and to this he added
a knowledge of the French, German, and Italian languages. From
his literary labors we might infer that his chief excellence
was in the promptitude and ability which he evinced in the
preparation of so many works of writers abroad, in translations
for the American public. But this view of the case would hardly
do ju